NE Show (17 July 2010)

The first NE Show started on 10 Jul. Jonathan was scheduled to provide on-site support while me and CKW remained station in the office to provide the back-end support.

It has been a rewarding and enriching experience working with CKW, learning from him from to provide back-end support on these major events.

WP was the on-site support officer for the second NE Show on 17 Jul. Isa's school attended this NE Show. All p5 students were to report to the school at 1.30pm for temperature taking. Isa was so excited that she could not even finish her lunch before rushing to her school.

I am pretty sure lots of waiting and head-counting at the school before the whole cohort set off to Padang by MRT. I can imagine how stressful the teachers would be to taking such a large group out of the school.

Anyway, J and I together with mum went to Mouth@Work to have a 1 to 1 (ie buy 1 get 1 free) set meal. There was a promotion using OCBC credit card. Each set meal costs $22.80 plus 10% service charge. Since F was not free, we ordered 2 to 2 set meals. The dim sum was nicely done and tasted delicious. Initially I thought the portion would be small and thus we should have no problem finishing all the dishes. I was wrong and we have to pack some of the fried dim sum back for F.

J and I reached the school at 9.45pm. The kids would returned around 10.30pm to 11pm. The NE Show ended around 8.30pm. I guess they would set off to Raffles Place MRT around 9pm. By 9.30pm, they should board the special train catered for these kids. They should arrive Lakeside MRT around 10pm. At the station, we saw "DO NOT BOARD" train at the sign board. But only kids from Shuqun alighted and no Rulang kids were seen. The station masters specially opened the gates to allow such a large group of students to leave the station.

At about 10.15pm, another "DO NOT BOARD" train arrived and we were pretty sure the Rulang kids were in this special train. Yes, we saw the familiar school uniform and teachers. The kids were so noisy and excited. Then we saw our Isa chatting happily with her classmates.

Each class was looked after by 4 teachers. The kids were led safely back to the school!

Next week's NE show, Jonathan will be the on-site support officer again. I will work again as back-end support on Preview.